Posted on July 4, 2009 - by Venik
Russia Agrees to More U.S.Transit for Afghanistan
A Volga Dnieper Airways (VDA) Antonov 124 cargo plane on the tarmac
Photo by: Boeing
Next week U.S. President Barack Obama will meet Russian President Dimitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in Moscow. This week American and Russian negotiators reportedly reached an agreement to expand the transit of U.S. materiel through Russia in support of the NATO mission in Afghanistan. Not coincidentally, Russia’s military chief of staff announced that the U.S. and Russian militaries had resumed direct talks that had been cancelled last year when relations chilled following the August 2008 Russo-Georgian War.
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